How a Con Man Built a Fake Town in the California Desert Fooling EVERYONE

Name: How a Con Man Built a Fake Town in the California Desert Fooling EVERYONE
Uploaded: 2026-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
Description: If you've driven I-15 out to Vegas you've passed the exit for Zzyzx Road and probably never stopped. At the end of that road a man who wasn't a doctor built a whole health resort o

If you've driven I-15 out to Vegas you've passed the exit for Zzyzx Road and probably never stopped. At the end of that road a man who wasn't a doctor built a whole health resort on federal land he didn't own, and faked the hot springs with a boiler hidden in the sand. He ran it for 30 years off mail-order cures before the government finally came for him. We got into how he got away with it for that long. #zzyzx #mojave #interstate15 #snakeoil

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